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S P. HANO.. MANIFOLD SALES BOOK OR PAD.

No. 592,141. Patented Oct. 19,1897.

WITNESSES:

5A P/ zi lz'p Home ATTORNEYS STATES FPATENT FFrcE.

PHILIP HANO, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MANIFOLD SALES BOOK OR PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,141, dated October 19, 1897 Application filed Ja e, 1897. Serla1No.644,001. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP HANO, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Manifold Sales Books or Pads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of books or pads useful in stores for making a manifold or duplicateentry or memorandum of a sale,

one duplicate bein g retained by the proprietor or cashier of the store and a duplicate being given to the purchaser. Theduplicate entry or copy of the sale-memorandum is generally produced by transfer-paper, or, as it is popularly called, carbon-paper. As the salesmen at times handle clean or delicate goodsas, for example, textiles-it is of importance that the carbon or transfer sheet be not handled by the salesmamas soiled fingers might thus result which would unfit the salesman for proper handling of certain goods. 7

Instead of having the book or pad composed of leaves which have to be lapped about the transfer leaf or sheet, whereby occasional I lifting of the carbon-sheet is required and contact of the fingers with the carbon-sheet may result, the book constituting the subject of this invention comprises leaves for the memorandum and a transfer leaf or sheet made to underlie the memorandum-leaves. In using this book, therefore, the undermost memorandum-sheet contacting wither lying directly on-the carbon-sheet is first used or written on, such sheet with its carboned duplicate being then removed or torn from the book.

By such' removal the memorandum-leaf im-' mediately above the sheet bein g removed now becomes the 'undermost sheet, 'and'rests on the'carbon-sheet for a duplicate or manifold entry. Thememorandum-leaves being numbered consecutively, the lowest number or one be-' ing. on that sheet which at the startlorin a fresh book is atthe bottom or in contact with the underlying carbon-sheet, and said memorandum-leaves being used and removed from the bottom upward, as stated, consecutively numbered memoranda are obtained.

The carbon or transfer face of the transfersheet facing upward or toward the overlying on its under side, such section or duplicate memorandum-leaf should be transparent for enabling the duplicate memorandum to be read therethrough.

The sections of the memorandum-sheets for receiving the original memorandum might also be made of transparent paper, or if found cheaper other papercan be used for the original memorandum.

The invention is set forth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in Which Figure 1 is a perspective View of a memorandum book or pad embodying this invention, the book being opened for writing. Fig. 2 is a sectional edge or side view of Fig. 1, the book being closed'as for carryingin the pocket. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a modification. Fig. 4. is a sectional edge or side view of Fig. 3.

The book is shown with a cover or back or support 1 2 3. Stitching or binding is shown at at for securing to the back the carbon or transfer leaf 5 and also the memorandumleaves.

Each memorandum-leaf is shown as comprising two sections or parts 6 and7. The

leaf-section 7 is for what maybe called an original or pencil memorandum While the section 6 is for a'duplicate or carbon memorandum.

The transfer-leaf 5 underlies the pad or pile of memorandum-leaves 6 7 ,and the carbon or transfer faceof this leaf 5 faces upward or toward the overlying. memorandum 'pad. The lowermost memorandum-leaf thus has its duplicate memorandum-section 6 lyingdirectly on the transfer-face of sheet 5 and its original memorandum-section 7 lying on section 6. To make a duplicate memorandum, the lowermost memorandu m-leaf is uncovered or made accessible by lifting or throwing-back the overlying memorandum-leaves. A pencil or other memorandum then suitably made on section 7, resting on section 6, will cause the transfer-face of sheet 5 to duplicate such memorandum on the under side of such sec tion 6. Such duplicate memorandum-section 6 being made of suitable transparent material--as, *for example, tracing-*paper-such ICO section 7 is taken as the original memorandum-section and section 6 as the carbon memorandum-section. It might be preferred by some users to have section 7 underlying section 6, as thereby section 7 will have its free edge held or guarded against flapping. XVhen the duplicate memorandum is completed, the

sections (3 and '7 can be separated or torir asunder along crease S, a suitable weakening or perforation at such crease being made to ease the separation if seen fit... Likewise a line of perforations or weakening, as at 9, enables the section 6 to be torn out of the book, leaving a stub or strip attached by fastening 4 to the cover or back. In Fig. 2 are shown two stubs, indicating that two duplicate memorandum-leaves have been torn out.

As the undermost memorandum-leaf is used and removed from the book the next overlying memorandum-leaf now becomes the undermost leaf and can in its turn be swung or dropped onto the transfer-leaf 5 for use in making aduplicate memorandum, and so on.

The successive swing or placing of one memorandum-leaf after the other onto the carbon-sheet and the consequent removal or detachment of the memorandum-leaves does not affect the transfer-sheet 5, which remains undisturbed on the back or cover 1 2 3 during the writing and ripping of the memorandum-sheets. This carbon-leaf 5 thus does not need to be lifted or handled, so that the fingers of the user can be kept clean or unsoiled by said sheet 5.

The memorandum-leaves 6 7 being used as seen from the bottom or back upward toward the top or overlying memorandum-leaf, the numbering of the leaves, in case numbering is applied, is started from the bottom memorandum-leaf upward. These books or pads generally containing fifty or a hundred leaves, the top memorandum-leaf would be number 50 or 100, as the case might be. Each memorandum-leaf having its sections 6 and 7 numbered alike the duplicate of any one memorandum will bear the same number. In numbering the memorandum -leaves of such a book a practical way is to begin at the top leaf with the highest number, say fifty or hundred, and to number downward or backward, reachii'ig the number or page one with the undermost memorandum leaf.

The carbon or transfer leaf being made of such length that its free edge is at or lies somewhat beyond the crease or edge 8 and said transfer-leaf being made to underlie the entire writing-surface of the memorandumleaf or of the duplicating-section U, such entire surface can be utilized or written on.

The carbon-leaf can be sewed or secured in the book at the edge corresponding with the bound edge of the writing-leaves or in any suitable way, or pasted to or form part of the back 1 2 3, or it might be placed or held loosely in the back of the book to be re movable when desired, as when used out, and a new carbon-leaf slipped in to replace the former.

hen the memorandum-leaf has its sections (3 and 7 integral or of one piece of material, the mcmorandinn-section 7, as well as the duplicating-section 6, would be of transparent material or tracing-paper. If desiredas, for example, to save expensive tracingpaper or for other reasons-the sections of each memoranduni-leaf can be made of different or distinct material-as, for example, in Figs. 3 and 4, where each memorandumleaf 6 7 has the transparent or duplicate 1nemorandum-section 6 of separate material or distinct from the section 7 for the original memorandum. The pencil memorandum made 011 the top face of a non-transparent leaf-section 7 will be carboned or duplicated on the under side of and will show through the transparent section 6,restin g on the transfer-leaf 5. These two sections (5 and 7 being then ripped from the book or detached from the binding or fastening 4t form sepa rate duplicates of the memorandum.

When the memorandum-leaf has its sec tions, as G 7, sepa ately and merely held together by binding, as at 4, no folding of the leaves is necessary, the several sections 6 and 7 being alternately superposed or placed one on top of the other or over the carbonleaf, as seen.

The device as seen is thus capable of modification without departing from the invention, which enables the duplicate memoranda to be produced in succession and removed or distributed without disturbing or moving or handling the transfer-leaf, said transfer-leaf underlying the pad or memoranduni-leaves, as seen.

A convenient way of securing the memorandunrpad and transfer-leaf would be by a cover having a screw, as shown in my United States Patent No. 568,305, granted September 22, 1806, for manifold memorandum book or pad, or the carbon-leaf may be framed or placed loosely in the back or bottom or the book.

lVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A manifolding-book composed of a number of memoranduiii-leaves and a transferleaf coated on its upper side only, said transfer-leaf being arranged beneath all the memorandum-leaves with its coated side in contact with the under side of the lowermost memorandum-leaf, substantially as described.

. with the under side of the lowermost memorandum-leaf, substantially as described.

3. A manifolding-book composed of a number of memorandum-leaves; and a transferleaf coated on its upper side only, said memorandum and transfer leaves being each bound I in the book at a corresponding edge, and said transfer-leaf being arranged beneath all the memorandum-leaves with its coated side in contact with the under side of the lowermost memorandum-leaf, substantially as described. 4. A manifolding-bool: composed of primary and duplicate memorandum-leaves, the duplicate memorandum-leaves being transparent and arranged one beneath each primary memorandum-leaf, and a transfer-leaf coated on its upper side only and arranged beneath all the memorandum-leaves with its coated side in contact with the under side of the lowermost duplicate memorandum-leaf,

substantially as described.

5. A manifolding-book composed of a number of memorandum-leaves, and a transferleaf coated on its upper side only, said transfer-leaf being of a size corresponding to or greater than the memorandum-leaves and arranged beneath all the memorandum-leaves with its coated side in contact with the under side ofthe lowermost memorandum-leaf, substantially as described.

6. A manifolding-book composed of a number of folded memorandum-leaves, and a transfer-leaf coated on its upper side only, said transfer-leaf being arranged beneath all the memorandum-leaves with its coated side in contact with the under leaf of the lowermost folded memorandum-leaf, substantially as described.

. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHILIP HANO.

Witnesses:

WM. 0. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

